An emotional Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued for millions of dollars in damages, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he was 14.
Repeatedly, Spacey denied Rapp's claims that a then-26-year-old Spacey picked him up like a groom does a bride after a 1986 party at his Manhattan apartment and put him on his bed before lying on top of him.
Spacey, 63, dabbed tears from his eyes with a tissue and sniffled as he described immediate intense pressure from publicists and lawyers to respond with compassion and empathy and an apology to Rapp's claims. He added: "I was shocked. I was frightened and I was confused. ... I knew I had never been alone with Anthony Rapp."
Spacey said he had met Rapp and another aspiring actor, John Barrowman, backstage following Spacey's Broadway performance in "Long Day's Journey into Night." He said he took them to dinner, to a nightclub and finally to his studio apartment, where he flirted with Barrowman -- who was 19 at the time -- but showed no interest in Rapp before the two visitors left.
The Associated Press does not usually name people alleging sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, as Rapp has done.
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